Hi Nadav,
Tk Open Systems Ltd. (TkOS) is a privately held consulting firm that
employs about eight people. Sun Microsystems is not at this time a
shareholder. TkOS does contract programming for a number of companies,
among then Sun, and several universities and government ministries.
Sun has contracted TkOS for work relating to QA and requirements
engineering and font acquisition for the Hebrew versions of StarOffice and
OpenOffice. This work also includes hosting this mailing list and the
openoffice.org.il website. The work is being directed by Rachel
Asheri-Cezana.
The Israel Ministry of Finance (MOF) has contracted TkOS to do a small
initial portion of the translation of the StarOffice/OpenOffice GUI as a
pilot project. The MOF Tehila project is organizing the Hebrew translation,
requirements definition and QA effort under the direction of Boaz Dolev,
who works for Itzik Cohen, the director of Tehila.
IBM's bidi group built a bidi OpenOffice based on development version 641.
Sun never integrated the IBM code into OpenOffice, so it is now legacy
code. The current bidi support in OpenOffice/StarOffice comes from code
that started with Sun's CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) efforts. The reason
for the IBM code not being integrated is A) political according to some
people or B) purely an engineering decision according to others. It is my
own belief that there was an unfortunate misunderstanding between the two
development groups.
Gilad has volunteered to be our webmaster. Other private individuals,
notably Tsafrir Cohen, have also made important contributions to the
Hebrew Openoffice effort on a voluntary basis. I appologize to anyone
whose name I have forgotten to mention.
I hope that this clears up the fog.
Regards,
- yba
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "RE: Translating
>arabic_hebrew_howto_OS_643 to Hebrew":
> > I'm Rachel, and I work for TkOs ( Yonatan ben Avraham ).
> > First I want to say Sun are showing a great interest in bug reports we
>
> I am a little confused: how does the work on Hebrew OpenOffice, or Bidi
> OpenOffice in general, divide between Sun and "TkOs"? Is TkOs a Sun
> subsidiary, an Israeli company hired to do part of the job, or what?
> And how does IBM's bidi group (which also worked on OpenOffice) figure
> into all of this, if at all?
>
> Thanks,
> Nadav.
>
>
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